FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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Legislator Questions:
- How can I obtain a list of all legislators' e-mail addresses?
- How can I determine my district and legislator?
- How can I find out what committee a member has been assigned to?
- Where can I obtain a voting record of my member? Is it online?
Bill Questions:
- How do I find the status of a bill?
- Who do I contact if I need assistance interpreting the status of a bill?
- How can I view the text of a bill?
- Can I perform text searches to locate a bill? (include tips for searching [notes for myself])
- How can I find bills from previous sessions? For example, the forty-fifth legislature?
- Is there a site that can tell me when a bill will take action on the floor?
- What do the committee action abbreviations mean when viewing the status overview of a bill?
- How can I find a list of all the strike everything amendments to bills?
- Where can I find the bills that have been transmitted to the Governor, transmitted to the Secretary of State, bills the Governor has has vetoed and signed, as well as bills that have been chaptered?
- How do I get a list of the general effective dates?
- What are the bill summaries?
Standing Committee and Interim Committee Questions:
Standing Committees:
- Where do I find the House and Senate Live Proceedings?
- How can I find out the members on a particular committee?
- How do I find out what day the committees are scheduled to meet?
- Where do I find the committee agendas?
- How do I sign up to speak on a bill in committee?
- Is there a way to check and see if a bill I am interested has been posted to committee agenda?
- How can I find general effective dates?
Interim Committees:
- Where do I find the interim committee agendas?
- Where do I find the interim committee minutes?
- Is there a complete listing of all interim committees?
- How can I check to see which members have been assigned to an interim committee?
Floor Calendar Questions:
- Are there any deadlines for floor calendars to be published?
- Is there a way to find out what action took place on a floor calendar?
Arizona Revised Statutes Questions:
- When are Arizona Revised Statutes updated?
- How can I purchase an ARS cd?
- How can I find out if a bill is amending a particular statute?
- How do I find a particular law on the website?
Constitution Questions:
- How can I perform a search within the constitution?
Session Laws Questions:
- How can I search within session laws?
- How can I tell if a session law contains a particular statute?
- How can I tell when a session law was enacted?
Other questions:
- What are the legislative digests?
- What are posting sheets?
- What are blue sheets?
- What are session summaries?
- Where are the session stats located?
- Are the Rules of Civil Procedure online?
- Where can I find the AZ Administrative Code and the Uniform Commercial Code?
Alis Tracking Questions:
- I forgot my password. Who do I contact?
- How do I set up the program to alert me when a bill has been posted to a calendar or agenda?
- How do I update my personal information?
Request to Speak Questions:
- Why can't I create an account from home?
- I forgot my password. Who do I contact?
- How do I update my personal information?
- How do I remove a comment for a bill online?
How can I obtain a list of all legislators' e-mail addresses?
Click the Members link located on the left blue naviation bar of the homepage.
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How can I determine my district and legislator?
From the homepage under Recent News, click Who's My Legislator? or Legislative Maps to determine your district and legislator.
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How can I find out what committee a member has been assigned to?
- From the homepage, click the Members link located on the blue navigation bar.
- Click the member's link.
- Scroll down past the personal biography to view the committee assignments.
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Where can I obtain a voting record of my member? Is it online?
The information is not online. You can receive that information through the House Chief Clerk's office (602) 926-3032 or Senate Secretary's office (602) 926-4231.
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How do I find the status of a bill?
Make sure the correct session is selected. If you know the bill number, type the bill number in the Bill # Search box (ex: SB1001) and click Search. Click either the Bill Status HTML or Bill Status TEXT link for a bill's status.
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Who can I contact if I need assistance interpreting the status of a bill?
If you need need assistance interpreting the status of a bill, you may call the Senate information desk at (602) 926-3559 or the House information desk at (602) 926-4221.
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How can I view the text of a bill?
Make sure the correct session is selected. If you know the bill number, type the bill number in the Bill # Search box (ex: SB1001) and click Search. Click the bill version link (i.e. Introduced version, Senate Engrossed version, etc.)
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Click the Bills link located on the blue naviation bar or click the Full Text Searching link located at the top right hand corner of the homepage.
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Click the Bills link located on the blue naviation bar or click the Full Text Searching link located at the top right hand corner of the homepage.
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How can I find bills from previous sessions? For example, the forty-fifth legislature.
The site is "session" driven. You must change the session to view bills from a previous session.
- Click the Change Session link and select a session.
- Three ways to locate bills:
- Type the bill number in the Bill# box and click Search.
- Click the Bills link, select the range of bills and click the bill.
- Click the Full Text Searching link located at the top right hand corner of the window and enter a keyword(s).
- Select a bill in the result list.
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Is there a site that can tell me when a bill will take action on the floor?
Click the link for ALIS Tracking and create an account. For more information on this program, see the Alis Tracking Online Manual.
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What do the committee action abbreviations mean when viewing the status overview of a bill?
Click one of the committee actions links from the Bill OverView HTML link. (See blue links below)
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- HB2004
SPONSORS: GRAY L P
TITLE: schools aggregate expenditure limitation; report
(NOW: reporting; expenditure limitations; schools)
HOUSE FIRST READ: 01/13/03
COMMITTEES: ASSIGNED COMMITTEES ACTION
Vote Detail 01/13/03 ED 01/29/03 (11-1-0-0-0) DPA/SE
Vote Detail 01/13/03 WM 02/04/03 (12-0-0-0-0) DPA/SE
Vote Detail 01/13/03 RULES 02/12/03 (12-0-0-0-0) C&P
SECOND READ: 01/14/03
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How can I find a list of all the strike everything amendments to bills?
Click the Strike Everything Bills link located on the left blue navigation bar of the ALIS Online homepage.
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Where can I find the bills that have been transmitted to the Governor, transmitted to the Secretary of State, bills the Governor has has vetoed and signed, as well as bills that have been chaptered?
- From the ALIS Online homepage, click the Bills link located on the blue navigation bar.
- Click the Bill Status link located at the top of the window.
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Where can I get a list of the general effective dates for current and past legislation?
Click the General Effective Dates link located on the left blue navigation bar of the ALIS Online homepage.
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What are bill summaries?
Under the direction of the Arizona Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, the summaries are prepared by research staff which includes summaries of all
legislation signed into law during the regular legislative session and any special sessions that have occurred since the publication of the previous year's Legislative
Summary.
The Summary is not intended to be an exhaustive analysis of each bill, but rather an overview that will provide the reader with the main purpose of
the bill. Additional information and details about the legislation can be obtained from bill
summaries (Senate Fact Sheets and House Abstracts) prepared by the Senate and House Research Staff or the chaptered bill
itself.
*Bill Summaries are located under the Bills link from the ALIS Online homepage.
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Where do I find the House and Senate Live Proceedings?
From the ALIS Online homepage, click the Live Proceedings links under the Senate and House information.
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How do I find out what day the committees are scheduled to meet?
From the ALIS Online homepage, click the links for Comittee Schedule by Day and Committee Meeting Schedule under Senate Information and House Information:
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How can I find out who the members are of a particular committee?
- Click the Standing Committees link located on the blue navigation bar from the ALIS Online homepage.
- Click any of the committee links to view the members, as well as minutes and agendas.
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Where do I find committee agendas?
From the ALIS Online homepage, click the Committee Agendas link located on the blue navigation bar.
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Are the Rules of Civil Procedure online?
- The Rules of Civil Procedure are not available at our site. For a hardcopy you may check
with your local library or any law library in the state.
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When are Arizona Revised Statutes updated?
- The statute updates are usually completed in
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